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After historic win for the BDS movement, Concordia undergraduates invite all students to action
Students voted ‘Yes’ to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel’s occupation and segregation of Palestinians

Concordia undergraduate students voted ‘Yes’ to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian people and land, and now invite fellow students to participate in the BDS committee. “By joining this grassroots global movement for Palestinian human rights, students are highlighting the commitment of our campus to social justice and collective moral responsibility,” said Javier Hoyos, Chairperson of the Yes to BDS Committee.

“We thank students for their depth of character and their courage to contest our university’s complicity with violations of international human rights,” added Hoyos. “We’re glad that students were given the opportunity to read the information accompanying the altered question at the voting booth, as this allowed them to make an informed decision in spite of the opposition’s defamation of the BDS and their move to change the question hours before polls opened.”

The initial question proposed by the Yes Committee stated that the BDS stands against Israel’s occupation of Palestine until Israel respects International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights. Israel violates a number of United Nations Resolutions as well as the Geneva conventions through its occupation and settlements; and the International Court of Justice ruled Israel’s wall to be illegal. Concordia’s successful BDS vote is another step towards effectively and non-violently pressuring Israel to meet its obligations under international law, as exemplified in the global boycott movement to abolish apartheid in South Africa.

The BDS thus calls for the end of Israeli occupation and colonization of Palestinian land and the dismantling of the wall; full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel; and respect for the right of return of Palestinian refugees as stipulated in UN resolution 194.

The BDS stands fundamentally against all forms of racism and does not target individuals, but rather institutions complicit with Israeli apartheid. “The next step is to invite Concordia students to join the BDS committee and continue in-depth research into Concordia’s ties to institutions complicit with Israel’s occupation,” said Hoyos.

Friday evening’s referendum results mean that Concordia’s two largest accredited student unions now officially support the BDS campaign; the Concordia Student Union (CSU) now joins the university’s Graduate Students’ Association (GSA), which endorsed the BDS in January 2013.

What do you think of about that, please,
“On 29 November 1947, without respecting its Charter, under the combined influence of the conflicting objectives of Truman, Stalin, also of ” France “and, evidently under the influence of the Zionist right and left of the planet (not only future Israelis ) in favor of a state exclusively inhabited by Jews or believers of old ancestry trimillénaire such, thirty-three member countries of the UN General Assembly on fifty-seven whereas others should legitimately be included) officially voted “Yes” to the recommendation (prescription only and not binding) of a partition plan for Palestine (without consultation with indigenous referendum). A partition into three territories (and in fact geographically, eight territorial units), including the international status to the Holy Places, Clause absolutely essential to obtain several votes, and a clause that the Zionists had no more intention to respect than the other three, a Jewish state, an Arab state and an economic union. Knowing that the majority required to validate the vote of the UN General Assembly was two-thirds (but ironically) of the only voting “Yes” or “No”, and that three votes needed were either extorted or blackmailed, while those four countries were in fact driven by the Soviet big brother, and that also at least two other votes of Central America (Costa Rica and Guatemala) and also Uruguay were purchased as shown by the records of the Zionist state anomaly. Thus actually, less than 25 free “Yes” on 56 possible”.

Obviously it is not either very short or succinct compared to the ultra-disinformation “In November 1947: The UNO decides to partition Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state”! But more brevity is an automatic false conceptualization to the serious detriment of Palestinian patriots, because the Zionists constantly hypocritically invoke their legitimacy on the basis of this flawed vote that the UN Charter does not allow him to present as demonstrated by the both French and English speaking Palestinian who was also lawyer of the Arab delegation Henry Cattan.